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Washington news with a Texas accentMon, 16 Nov 2015 20:28:37 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Three years later, U.S. still hasn’t delivered 40% of promised drug war aid to Mexicohttps://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/three-years-later-u-s-still-hasnt-delivered-40-of-promised-drug-war-aid-to-mexico/
https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/three-years-later-u-s-still-hasnt-delivered-40-of-promised-drug-war-aid-to-mexico/#respondTue, 24 May 2011 14:00:53 +0000http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/?p=10635Nearly three years have come — and gone — since the United States agreed in 2008 to provide equipment and training worth $1.5 billion to Mexico in an effort to help combat raging drug violence.
Yet, despite pledges by two White House administrations to fix the bureaucratic problems besetting the so-called Merida Initiative, barely 59 percent of the promised U.S. spending has been completed, according to the State Department’s latest accounting.]]>https://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/05/three-years-later-u-s-still-hasnt-delivered-40-of-promised-drug-war-aid-to-mexico/feed/0